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Newspaper
Quappelle Progress
Location
Quappelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
May 17, 1888
Page
4
The notice outlines a business directory card offer for 6408 a year with a weekly insert and three month initial term. After the initial period a recurring charge of $1.00 per quarter in advance applies, or the card will be dropped.
Fragmentary OCR lists names and trades such as Queen's Hotel house Love and 8 H Cabwell merchant J P Beauchamp V Bulyer and A McKenzile baker and fruit dealer Milliken Co pars and Collins post neeste C C Bailey Co practical watchmakers and jewellers.
Qu Appelle notes a warm country spell and Arbor Day mention. Community items include visits by C B Babbit and A L Sifton en route from Prince Albert to California, local theater readings, and a church meeting next Sunday.
A public meeting was held this evening near Pee On Ep ofHt Lan Bulyea. T. T. Thomson and D. B. McCannel attended to discuss a 320 dog question in bearing. All are invited.
The notice lists sermons by Rev A Andews and Rev J M Dickenson of the P M Colony. On May 27 services occur at 12 o'clock in the Ae church and 7 pm in the Presbyterian church, with later 11 o'clock and 7 pm services in the Ideal to th C church and the Methodist church.
Members are earnestly requested to attend on Needay next at 13. It is expected a match will be played here on the 24th inst Queen's Birthday.
The Diamond Base Ball Club opened today with two chosen sides captained by Dr. Carthew and Mr. R Johnston. Nine men were selected per side and Mr. A Paterson acted as umpire. After seven innings Carthew’s team led. the club showed good practice with sharp fly balls during Tuesday and Friday sessions after 4 o'clock.
Council minutes from South Qu Appelle record May 5 with present Murphy Cates Ross Milne. Milne chairs pro tem. Last meeting minutes read and confirmed. Communications note reappointments and loan debenture receipts for local schools and school district funds.
The minutes report by law numbers and fire limits, cheques issued for services including well cleaning, street repairs, and public works. Councillors discuss tax collection, highway expenditures, and public safety measures with names and ward references, concluding with by-law readings and remarks.
At Fort Qu Appelle a premature daughter was born to Mr Huntly Campbell of Caswaiz. The event was noted with a brief public birth notice in the local column.
A garbled column mentions Carl Seburs delivering lectures in New England next winter and Lecraneh Dal spending the summer in Italy. It cites General Booth’s planned fall visit, Yale professors and the Century Dictionary, and a street scene with a storekeeper warning about a hatchway along with a laborer dialogue about a beer glass worker.
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